Placement



Students on the Job Market

All Wharton doctoral students build their own research interests on a foundation of rigorous research. By pushing the boundaries of understanding, they not only become experts in their fields, but also translate their research into practice, addressing relevant issues in the real world.

Note: If you are interested in students from a particular program, please contact the departments directly for more information. See a list of links to department websites.
Student Name Research Interests Job Market Paper Faculty Advisors
APPLIED ECONOMICS

Wenjie Ding

Personal website; CV

  • Housing and Real Estate Economics
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Urban and Regional Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
"Policy Intervention and the Value of Political Connection China’s Housing Market” Joseph Gyourko

Fernando Ferreira

Shing-Yi Wang

 Adam Isen

Personal website;CV

  •  Labor Economics
  • Personal Economics
  • Public Economics
 "Dying to Know: Are Workers Paid their Marginal Product?"

Mark Duggan

Alexander Gelber

Todd Sinai

Hugh Hoikwang Kim

Personal website; CV

  • Economics of Risk Management
  • Financial Market and Institutions
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investment 
  • Portfolio Choice
"Contagious Runs in Money Market Funds and the Impact of a Government Guarantee” Olivia S. Mitchell

Itay Goldstein

Santosh Anagol

Vivek Shah

Personal website; CV

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Development Economics
  • Insurance and Risk Management
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Behavioral Economics
"Managing Productivity Risk Through Workfare Participation: Evidence from India's NREGA Scheme” Jeremy Tobacman

Olivia Mtichell

Shawn Cole

 Cindy K. Soo

Personal website; CV

  •  Applied Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Household Finance
  • Real Estate Economics
  • Applied Economics
 "Quantifying Animal Spirits: News and Sentiments in the Housing Market"

Joseph Gyourko

Olivia S. Mitchell

Todd Sinai

Fernando Ferreira

Michael R. Roberts

FINANCE

Finance PhD students on the job market are listed on the department website:
Finance PhD Job Market Candidates

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT & ECONOMICS

Erin Taylor 

E-mail

  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Health Insurance
  • Industrial Organization

"The Effect of Specialty Tier Placement on Utilization and Expenditures in Medicare Part D"

Patricia Danzon 

 

 Sean McElligott

E-mail

  •  Pharmaceutical economics
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Economic impact of health policies
"The effect of potentially endogenous state vaccine policies on demand: The role of subsidies, mandates, and exemptions"

Patricia Danzon

Mark Pauly

Jonathan Kolstad

Daniel Polsky

MANAGEMENT

 Alessandro Marino

E-mail

Website

  • Organizational Adaptation
  • Simulation
  • Organizational Learning
  • Dynamic Capabilities
"The Contingent Nature of Dynamic Capabilities" Daniel Levinthal

Lori Rosenkopf

Nicolaj Siggelkow  

 Thomas Klueter

E-mail

Website

  • Organizational Learning
  • Product Development
  • Alliances
“Open but Closed - When do Established Firms Seek Novel Partnering Opportunities?”

Raffi Amit

Lori Rosenkopf

Rahul Kapoor 

Felipe Monteiro

MARKETING

Amit Bhattacharjee

E-mail

Website

  • Consumer Belief Systems 
  • Moral and Social Judgment 
  • Consumer Welfare and Well-being 
"Escaping the Crosshairs: Reactance to Identity Marketing" Americus Reed II

Geeta Menon

Stephanie Finnel

E-mail

Website

  • Ambivalence 
  • Identity Conflict 
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Charitable Giving 
"How Consumers Manage their Sense of Self Alongside their Relationships with Others" Americus Reed II

Patti Williams

 

OPERATIONS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT & DECISION PROCESSES

Vibhanshu Abhishek

E-mail

  • Economics of Information
  • Industrial Organization (Empirical + Analytical)
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Emerging Technologies
   Kartik Hosanagar

Peter S. Fader

Z. John Zhang

Alessandro Arlotto

E-mail

  • Applied Probability
  • Operations Management
  • Operations Research
  Noah Gans

J. Michael Steele

 Bob Batt

E-mail

Website

  •  Healthcare Operations
  • Empirical Operations Management
  • Retail Operations

 

  Christian Terwiesch

 Alison

Wood Brooks

E-mail

Website

 

  •  Organizational Behavior
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions
  • Trust
  • Negotiations
 "How to become the next American Idol: Reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement"

Maurice Schweitzer

Katherine Milkman

Adam Grant

Adam Galinsky

Philip Tetlock

Jose Guajardo

E-mail

  • Supply chain management
  • Service operations
  • Operations/Marketing interface
  • Applied econometrics and industrial Organization
  

Morris Cohen

Serguei Netessine

Jun Li

E-mail

  • Revenue Management & Pricing
  • Strategic Consumers
  • Industrial Organization
  • Social and Economic Networks
  

Serguei Netessine

F. Tom Tan

E-mail

  • Operational Performance Analysis 
  • Operations-Marketing Interface 
  • Information Goods Economics 
  • Applied Statistics 

Serguei Netessine

Necati Tereyagoglu

E-mail

  • Revenue Management with Strategic Customer Behavior 
  • Empirical Revenue Management 
  • Structural Estimation 
 

Senthil Veeraraghavan

 

Joel Wooten

E-mail

  • Innovation 
  • Idea Generation
  • Product Development 
  • Organizational Rites, Rituals, and Ceremonies
   Karl Ulrich

Christian Terwiesch

Z. John Zhang